So, the Supreme Court has decided that the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in two KY courthouses, but the frieze on display in the Supreme Court can stay, because the artist covered any references to God and Sabbath, making it a completely secular, historical document, then, I guess? Okay.

What gets me about these cases is not that non-Judeo-Christians want the displays removed, but that practicing Christians would engage in the fight at all. We Christians should not be worried about whether or not the Ten Commandments are on public display but, rather, are we publicly displaying adherence to those commandments?

The boys and I were examining ants as part of a unit study on cooperation. As I did my research I discovered that there are over 10,000 species of ants in the world. Over 10,000 different species of ants alone! Well, that got me to thinking about Adam, Eve and original sin and taxonomy; logical association, right?

I love the way the authors of the Bible include little snippets of information that are woven into the main story in such a way that you either completely miss the reference, or, when you do finally catch it, you are left wondering what on Earth happened next?

One of my favorite biblical cliffhangers is found in Matthew 27:57-58:

I attend a bible study on Tuesday nights. It's a multi-year program and I'm just completing year 3. Each year lasts from September to mid-May and is quite intense.

It's kind of funny that I, the Obstreperous Heart, would attend this particular study as the organization can be suffocatingly rigid in its code of conduct. I try often to bite my tongue and am only sometimes successful; usually I can't stand the pain and just HAVE to let it flap anyway. I am probably viewed by some as hopelessly irreverent. (Just for the record, God does have a kick-butt sense of humor and I am doing my own research on humor in the bible; there is a ton.)